GunnLeif Merl I 50VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 118 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 50)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 86.
Þá ‘Then’
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2. þá (adv.): then
mun ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
ríkja ‘rule’
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ríkja (verb): rule
réttlætis ‘of justice’
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réttlæti (noun n.): justice
notes
[2] réttlætis ‘of justice’: This noun is characteristic of C12th and later religious poetry and learned prose texts.
dýr ‘the beast’
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1. dýr (noun n.; °-s (spec.: dyʀiɴs KonrA 66⁴, etc., cf. Seip 1955 188-189); -): animal
eyverskir ‘the island-dwelling’
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eyverskr (adj.): [army]
ormar ‘serpents’
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ormr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): serpent
hræðask ‘will dread’
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3. hræða (verb): fear, be afraid
Ok ‘And’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
fyr ‘across’
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
sunnan ‘south’
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sunnan (adv.): (from the) south
sæ ‘the sea’
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sjór (noun m.): sea
sjalfir ‘themselves’
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sjalfr (adj.): self
ugga ‘will be fearful’
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ugga (verb): to fear, suspect
víz ‘on every side’
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víðr (adj.): far
rammligir ‘redoubtable’
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rammligr (adj.): strong
valskir ‘the French’
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valskr (adj.): foreign, French
turnar ‘towers’
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turn (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-; -ar): tower
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Cf. DGB 113 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 147.78-9; cf. Wright 1988, 104, prophecy 11): Succedet leo iusticiae, ad cuius rugitum Gallicanae turres et insulani dracones tremebunt ‘They will be succeeded by the lion of justice, at whose roar the towers of France and the island dragons will tremble’ (cf. Reeve and Wright 2007, 146). The reference is to Henry I (c. 1068/1069 ‑ 1 December 1135), the fourth son of William the Conqueror, who succeeded to the throne in 1100 and campaigned extensively in France and Normandy. The soubriquet ‘Lion of Justice’ refers to his judicial and financial reforms (cf. the account of William of Malmesbury: Mynors et al. 1998-9, I, 742-3, and 798-9). The expression ‘island dragons’, translated literally by Gunnlaugr, refers to ‘all British rulers of the islands belonging to Wales, Scotland and Ireland’ (Curley 1982, 241). For Henry’s Welsh campaign of 1114 see Poole (1955, 287).
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